Watercolor is my passion. After teaching art in the public schools for 40 + years I now have time to create art for myself. I am a watercolorist who sometimes likes to work in mixed media as well. My journey in art began when I was a small child and continues to this day. Barbara Hart Sailor
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Interesting that you said you lost some of the color during the photographing of the painting. That happens to me all of the time (darned flash). I was thinking that peppers are usually a deeper red, but it sounds like your peppers are too! LOL I think you did a beautiful job on this and what a great choice for 'something hot'!
Oh BARB...these are splendid!!! You DID paint veggies! :-) And HOT they are. (I usually turn off my flash during photos and try to either take the photo in indirect sunlight OR under an Ott light or other good art bulb. But you are right, something gets lost anyway. Tell me if you glazed these peppers...did you put on many layers? I did a bench once in red red red like that and the only way I could get the desired depth of red was to glaze many times. These DO vibrate and my lips sting from the "hotness". Just GREAT. ps. Are you going to enter the next portrait contest on Global Love-in? I saw you were there last time.
Hot and spicy and very very well painted - I would enjoy looking at this one a long time. I like the small size, too - means the subject is really in your face on the paper plane.
Hey Barb.....Hot Stuff !!! and very well done too.!!!
AutumnLeaves...sometimes I have trouble with my camera getting the colors true, but most of the time the colors are right. Reds are the hardest for me to get.
Ginny...yes - I did paint veggies! I took the picture under an Ott light, but still had trouble with the reds. All the other colors were true to the painting.
I didn't glaze the peppers - i painted them wet in wet and dropped in the intense colors and then lifted the highlights with a damp brush in a very controlled manner. I will probably enter the next portrait contest:) Hope you had a restful weekend.
Rhonda...I just recently started painting smaller due to a special SWAP group I belong to and find that I sort of like painting small once in a while:)
Barbra Joan...Thanks for the compliments - ALWAYS appreciated!
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